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625 words match “ABILITY”

PERISHABILITY n.
Perishableness.
PERMEABILITY n.
The quality or state of being permeable. Magnetic permeability (Physics), the specific capacity of a body for magnetic induction, or its conducting power for lines of magnetic force. Sir W. Thomson.
PERSPIRABILITY n.
The quality or state of being perspirable.
PERTURBABILITY n.
The quality or state of being perturbable.
PLACABILITY n.
The quality or state of being placable or appeasable; placable disposition.
PLIABILITY n.
The quality or state of being pliable; flexibility; as, pliability of disposition. "Pliability of movement." Sir W. Scott.
PONDERABILITY n.
The quality or state of being ponderable.
PORTABILITY n.
The quality or state of being portable; fitness to be carried.
PRACTICABILITY n.
The quality or state of being practicable; practicableness; feasibility. "The practicability of such a project." Stewart.
PRECIPITABILITY n.
The quality or state of being precipitable.
PREDICABILITY n.
The quality or state of being predicable, or affirmable of something, or attributed to something. Reid.
PREFERABILITY n.
The quality or state of being preferable; preferableness. J. S. Mill.
PREVENTABILITY n.
The quality or state of being preventable.
PROBABILITY n. 3 definitions
obable; appearance of reality or truth; reasonable ground of presumption; likelihood. Probability is the appearance of the agreement or disagreement of two ideas, by the intervention of proofs whose connection is not constant, but appears for the most part to be so. Locke.
QUESTIONABILITY n.
The state or condition of being questionable. Stallo.
RATABILITY n.
The quality or state of being ratable.
READABILITY n.
The state of being readable; readableness.
RECEIVABILITY n.
The quality of being receivable; receivableness.
RECOGNIZABILITY n.
The quality or condition of being recognizable.
REDEEMABILITY n.
Redeemableness.
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